I wondor if anyone does a mix of our-tech (normal
building practices) and alternatives.
this might ease things with the regulators!
In my case, I built a cob shed in my back yard. (just
under a hundred sq ft to comply with code.
Walls had to be very thick at the base. (It is quite
the big shed now).
If I were to do it again, I would just do reinforced
concrete posts to hold up the roof, Or wood posts and
roof all done first. and then do 6 inch thick cob
going down to 4 at the top. Instead of 14 inches at the bottom.
People worried about the lasting of alternative
material houses in wet places should note that some cob houses in
England (which has a pretty wet climate) are hundreds
of years old! its the roof and waterproof base that makes the biggest
difference!
I have not done papercrete myself but there are
perhaps aspects where you can appease regulators too
with minor compromises?
A while ago, I posted about a way to make a dome as a
mold for forming reflectors for solar cookers. It is
at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=g4KYk-XrBCo and the
solar accumulating barbecue is at
http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/
Tracking_Solar_Accumulating_Barbecue
Perhaps someone could make a dome mold a barbecue with a
papercrete backing to the reflector?
I have done more work on the barbecue project but it
is not uploaded yet so it will change quite a bit
soon.
(If the solar cooker webmaster allows the changes).
The project is totally DIY and very much open to slight direction
changes so please check it out.
Brian
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com,
"mary_hbp" <hugron_belislephoto@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Mary-Jo, and me and my husband Eric just joined this
group and we are trilled
> with all the info we found because of you all. We live close to
Montreal, Canada (as some of
> you might know, our first language here is french so excuse my pour
english). We were
> looking at ways to build in green and we thought papercrete is a
fabulous product. So we are
> wondering if anybody have ever heard about papercrete project in
our cold, north and snowy
> country. We wanted to build a 20 x 30, 2 levels house and we were
afraid about if all our
> snow and rain would be a problem to this kind of construction. Is
there any specific things we
> should be thinking of doing to make sure our house will go through
time (hopefully many
> years...) ? Any advises will be good and really appreciated from
us.
>
> We really look forward to learn more about all this and hopefully
get to know some of you
> better.
>
> Best regards to all of you,
>
> Mary-Josee
> Hugron-Bélisle Photographes
> www.hugron-belisle.com
>
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